Tried and Tasted: Breakfast Cereals with Fruit

Sainsbury's BGTY Balance with Red Fruit

A good texture carrying a fairly good cereal. Not everyone's favourite, and the fruits may be too tart for some, but this floated to the top of the test. Great as a dry snack.

Waitrose Special Choice with Raspberries, Strawberries & Cherries

Fairly bland and not trying very hard to be distinguishable from the rest. To wake your taste buds it's more of a pleasant radio station than a screeching alarm clock.

Kellogg's Special K Red Berries

One of the best for cereal flakes, as you might hope from the large K on the front of the pack, but the fruit pieces, though nicely whole, may be too sharp and sweet for some.

Weetaflakes Raisin, Cranberry & Apple

The only entrant with the rice/wheat balance dipped toward the wheat and the only one following the current trend to add biotics. Unfortunately, tasting quite chemically and with no real life of its own. Quite nice when dry; the fruit pieces are not as dehydrated as with the others.

Asda Vitality with Red Fruit

Not a challenger for top cereal. Top criticism fought between the "baby food"-like flakes and the "unnaturally sweet" fruit pieces. Without milk, you get the real contrast between dry, bland flakes and the dry, hyper-sweet fruit.

Nestle Fitnesse & Fruit

Not hugely popular with the team; some wondering if they were eating bits of the box. Though the fruit pieces tasted more natural than some of the others. Significantly better when dry; the fruit definitely feeling more natural as well.

Weight Watchers Multi-Grain Flakes with Apple

Described as "off" and "like mouldy bread" this had a disappointing taste and feel in the mouth and seemed reluctant to leave, clinging on to teeth. A little better when eaten dry.

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